Chiezo Kataoka Movies

Toyama Kinshiro, a commissioner from northern Edo, goes undercover to unravel the mystery behind a series of murders. Kinshiro, played by Kataoka...

This most celebrated all-star movie version of the popular series features Tsukigata Ryunosuke as Mito Komon, the sage who wanders the countryside...

As it turns out, the evil hand of drugs has reached the inner palace of the Shogunate. It was thought that the opium was coming from Nagasaki, but it...

Samon Kamiyama, a skilled yoriki under Toyama Saemon-no-jō Kagemoto is feared and known to the villains as “Samon from the Hell.”...

Chiezo Kataoka plays a cowardly samurai, whose honor is on the line when it becomes necessary to avenge the murder of his father. The culminating...

A man challenges a territorial fight between gangs.

The stormy tale of the Shinsengumi is told from its birth by master filmmaker Sasaki Yasushi, with an all-star cast based on the original story by...

His mother abandoned him as a child, so he had no choice but to live outside society. Even so, he grows up determined to reunite with her. Worried...

Jesuit priests in Japan during the 17th century are persecuted by the shogunate to for trying to spread Christianity.

A man with two identical faces challenges the wicked and lawless escaped prisoner to an unsuitable battle, intertwining with the chilling image of...

Friendship between an ambitious young thief and an artist during the Warring States period.

Second part of director Hiroshi Inagaki's 1940 adaptation of the story of Musashi Miyamoto.

A lighthearted and entertaining film that incorporates popuar songs into a period drama.

Chogoro, the young master of a rice shop who receives sword lessons from Tetsusaburo Yamaoka, travels to the lawless Kanbei Onigawara family from...

The Purple-Hooded Man, Japan's version of Robin Hood, tries to uncover a corruption scandal in Edo era Japan.

Miyamoto Musashi is challenged by a series of opponents in this follow up to Miyamoto Musashi's Kongoin Ketto (1942, also called Nitoryu Kaigen) also...

When Kanbe Nagakichi has his turf taken over by Ano-Toku, the father-in-law of his sworn brother Kira Nikichi sets in motion one of the most violent...

"Masayoshi Ryanko" jumps into the den of the underworld swirling with smuggling and murder, and defeats the culprit with a heart-pounding pistol.